Stronico begins

As Silverlight 3 nears release - so does Stronico - my next killer app, or in this case, a visual contact and private network manager. Hopefully it will be done by the end of summer.

I just finished the home page for the site (albeit it will change in a few days as the logo gets completed. Check it out at Stronico.com

Random Sunday link roundup

• Argentina has decriminalized illicit drug consumption - hopefully a trend
  
• Hanselman on graphs and charts
• Soob on Global Warming
• A network visualizer
• A network map of corporate America
  

Tuesday rapid fire

• The dating site for Ayn Rand fans - I haven't signed up (yet anyway)
• Eugenics and dysgenics
• An up and coming genocide in Zimbabwe, or it looks that way anyway
• Caffeine protects your brain! If this is true, I'm immortal. And this is my dream woman...
• Tax proposals for gangs
• This is the coolest Silverlight app yet
  

Quick Link Roundup

• ASP.net best practices
• The Georgia Encyclopedia
• A quick start guide to SilverLight
• A periodic table of visualization methods
• Patrick Lang on Obama - featuring the notable line that Obama is the "Trophy Messiah"
• The first look at SilverLight 2.0
  

Monday morning roundup

My apologies for the light blogging, work has been a frenzy lately. You should all read

• The Buy Vs Rent Calculator on the NYT
• HDR in Photoshop CS3
• The coolest Silverlight application to date
• Will Wilkerson makes an excellent point on the current supply-side forforah going on these days.
  

Friday Rapid Fire

• European Solar Power - with an array of mirrors instead of photo voltaic panels
• CogMap - an online organization chart maker, pretty cool, very Ajax-ey
• SilverLight - Microsoft's Next Big Thing has it's first (that I've seen) user generated application. And I just learned Ajax...